![]() ![]() Afterward, they settle at the bottom of the ocean. ![]() After hatching, the larvae float around in the current for approximately 16 days. The female lays several hundred eggs at a time, which hatch after about 16 or 17 days. textile lives in the waters of the Red Sea, the tropical Indo-Pacific, off Australia ( New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland and Western Australia), New Zealand, the Indian Ocean from eastern Africa to Hawaii, and French Polynesia. These last are irregularly disposed, but crowded at the shoulder, base and middle so as to form bands. The color of the shell is yellowish brown, with undulating longitudinal lines of chocolate, interrupted by triangular white spaces. The color pattern of its shell resembles a cellular automaton named Rule 30. The maximum shell length for this species is 15 cm (5.9 in). Typical length of adults is about 9 cm to 10 cm (3.5 in to 3.9 in). ![]() Sowerby I, 1834 : synonym of Conus retifer Menke, 1829Ĭonus textile, holotype of Conus dilectus at the Smithsonian Institution ponderosa Dautzenberg, 1932 : synonym of Conus textile Linnaeus, 1758 loman Dautzenberg, 1937 : synonym of Conus textile Linnaeus, 1758 Sowerby III : synonym of Conus textile Linnaeus, 1758 abbreviata Dautzenberg, 1937: synonym of Conus ammiralis Linnaeus, 1758
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